So it seems this forum in really no more tangential than Jerry Garcia.

This forum has become like a family for many of us. And since you can choose friends, but you can't choose your family you have to learn to take the good with the bad and even ignore some of the crazier relatives.

in response to jerry's many musical connections- i recently spent a large chunk of time in an automobile (like, a whole year) and wound up playing some pretty dumb games to pass the time. one of them was "six degrees of jerry garcia". it was played just like "six degrees of kevin bacon", but using jerry instead of kevin bacon. the fact that jerry was working for so long and was fairly casual with collaboration led to some pretty funny connections.

"So it seems this forum in really no more tangential than Jerry Garcia"

I'm not so sure about that. So far as I know, Jerry never touched on the subject of roasted testicles.... or braised testicles either for that matter, either musically or otherwise. Of course, I am not completely versed in his entire canon of work as yet, so there is still the chance that I may be proved wrong some day. :) :)